The number of unemployed Austrians continues to decline as the country gets ready for the full liberalisation of its job market.Social Democratic (SPÖ) Labour Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer announced today (Tues) that 309,584 people living in Austria were out of work last month. He added that another 69,187 unemployed Austrians were sitting re-education courses organised by […]
Austrian ÖVP (Peoples Party) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said today (Mon) that a revolution was occurring in Egypt.He added that it was important for the European Union to react with a view to the future since no one could know what the end result would be and it was still uncertain whether there would be […]
A group of Palestinian refugees detained in Romania said they were trying to reach Austria.Romanian border police put the five men aged between 23 and 25 into custody after they illegally crossed the border into Serbia near Jimbolia on Wednesday evening.Officials told the Romanian Times newspaper that the group planned to travel to Austria to […]
Socialists & Democrats Group in the European Parliament (EP) leader Martin Schulz has defended the decision of the EP and the European Commission (EC) to examine Hungarys controversial new media law.Critics have claimed the check might take longer than the countrys six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) which started on 1 […]
Portuguese Socialist Party head and Prime Minister Jose Socrates has claimed his country is a model pupil in restoring its finances.Many analysts and economists have warned that Portugal may be the next European Union (EU) member to tap the recently established European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Greece and Ireland have already received billions in credits […]
The Hungarian ambassador in Vienna has claimed that the European press is not interested in a successful Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU).The Hungarian government of right-wing Fidesz chairman and Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been attacked by newspapers all over the continent over a controversial new media enactment. The law, […]
More than 10 per cent of young Austrians are not in employment, education or training, it has emerged.The European Commissions (EC) statistic body Eurostat announced yesterday (Weds) that 10.1 per cent of Austrians aged between 20 and 24 were out of work, education and traineeships in 2008. The authority, which did not provide more recent […]
Officials have engaged in a bitter war of words after the Federal Economy Chamber (WKO) decided to stop subsidising the Austrian Tourism Marketing (ÖW).WKO said recently it will end its annual eight-million-Euro injection from 2012 and intensify its own tourism marketing initiatives instead. The authority criticised the ÖW for neglecting emerging markets like Brazil, India […]
Almost 4,000 people work for Austrian breweries, new figures show.A study published by magazine News reveals the countrys 69 brewing companies have around 3,900 employees. Only Germanys 1,319 breweries (29,604) and the 124 Belgian beer firms (5,190) have more staff in the European Union (EU). There are significantly more breweries in Denmark (120) than in […]
Austria’s unemployment rate has dropped, half a year before the country must fully open its labour market to workers from European Union (EU) states in Eastern Europe (EE).Statistik Austria announced today (Weds) 179,000 people were out of work in the fourth quarter of 2010, down by 21,000 or 10.6 per cent compared to the same […]